{
  "id": 8681415,
  "title": "Rabies concerns grow in the US – but it’s unclear if there’s an increase of the fatal disease",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/rabies-concerns-grow-in-the-us-but-its-unclear-if-theres-an-increase-8681415",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-20T12:00:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Health",
    "slug": "guardian-health",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/20/rabies-beaver-goat-prevalence-concerns"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Rabies concerns have been on the rise in the United States, following a series of unusual incidents involving humans and rabid animals. These include a case where rabid goats at a petting zoo in North Carolina exposed hundreds of people, and three individuals in Maryland were attacked by rabid beavers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an advisory in response to these reports of increasing human exposures to rabid or possibly rabid animals. However, experts are divided on whether there has actually been an increase in rabies cases in the U.S.",
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  "editors_take": null,
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      {
        "outlet": "The Guardian US",
        "title": "Rabies concerns grow in the US – but it’s unclear if there’s an increase of the fatal disease",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/rabies-concerns-grow-in-the-us-but-its-unclear-if-theres-an-increase",
        "published": "2026-09-20T12:00:15.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}